South Croxton sign
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South Croxton sign South Croxton fingerpost

South Croxton

South Croxton, Leicestershire

The first element of South Croxton, in the East Goscote Hundred of Leicestershire, likely comes from the Old Danish male personal name Krok (Old Norse Krókr, Middle English genitive singular Crokes), originally a byname meaning ‘crooked-back’, or possibly ‘crooked-dealer’ related to Old Norse krókr ‘hook’. Alternatively the first element could be Old English croc ‘a crook’, that is relating to a location situated in a nook or bend of land.

The second element of the place-name is Old English tun ‘an enclosure; a farmstead; a village; an estate’.

The Middle English affix suð ‘south’ distinguishes South Croxton from Croxton Kerrial in the Framland Hundred.

Ascribed Culture

Collection

Viking Names

Keywords

byname, Danish, hybrid name, Leicestershire, male_name, place-name

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Acknowledgements

Image © Mat Fascione, via Geograph, CC BY-SA 2.0

Image © Andrew Tatlow, via Geograph, CC BY-SA 2.0

References

Barrie Cox, A Dictionary of Leicestershire and Rutland Place-Names. Nottingham: English Place-Name Society (2005), p. 96.

Barrie Cox, The Place-Names of Leicestershire III. English Place-Name Society LXXXI (2004), p. 72.

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